The Act Of Killing

Spine no.
14

Director
Joshua Oppenheimer

Year
2013

Runtime
115 min

2014 Academy Award® Nominee – Best Documentary Feature

"A MASTERPIECE... & A MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT." –The Village Voice

In this inventive and critically-acclaimed documentary by Joshua Oppenheimer and executive produced by documentary titans, Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Into the Abyss) and Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War), the filmmakers examine a country where Indonesian death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings via musical numbers, action and comedy sequences and other genres of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result of Oppenheimer’s daring idea is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.